Your first assignment in Part A of your diploma exam is called a Visual Reflection. This task is worth 10% of the total diploma exam mark. Your response is scored based on two categories: Ideas and Impressions (5%) and Presentation (5%).

What to Expect:

• You will be presented with one or more visuals and prompted to answer this question: “What ideas and impressions does the visual text suggest to you?”
  
  
• These visuals will likely be photographs, but they may also be reproductions of paintings or other types of art work.
  
  
• Your task is to study the visual(s) in the exam closely, and identify and discuss the idea that is being communicated, referring to details in the visual(s) in some way.

The Rules:

• You must respond in prose form (sentences and paragraphs).  Prose can be anything from a short essay to a creative script. DO NOT write a poem.
  
  
• Your response should NOT refer to the texts you have studied in this course.
  
  
• Discuss the main idea communicated in the visual in one of the following formats:
• personally, using your own or others' life experiences to relate to the main idea
• critically, analyzing how the artistic techniques and the composition of the visual communicate the main idea
• creatively, creating a unique story or narrative that explores the main idea

• Regardless of the prose form you choose, your response must show your ability to identify clear ideas and support them effectively.